Title: Page From Power's Journal
Date: February 21, 1922
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
Description: Power kept many journals containing newspaper clippings, weather information, and professional notes.
- Power kept a page like this each day for many years. How do you think this kind of information might have been useful to him over time?
- Power clipped newspaper articles about topics that interested him and placed them on his journal pages. What can the articles he chose tell us about him?
- The information on the right side of the page in his own handwriting describes a land purchase Power had recently made. What information about this purchase does he tell us?
- Many people during Power's time and earlier wrote daily accounts of the local weather in their journals. Why could this information be helpful for a researcher?